The Autobiography Calvin Coolidge
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Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.87969
dc.contributor.author: Calvin Coolidge
dc.date.accessioned: 2015-06-30T20:32:00Z
dc.date.available: 2015-06-30T20:32:00Z
dc.date.digitalpublicationdate: 2004-04-05
dc.date.citation: 1929
dc.identifier: RMSC, IIIT-H
dc.identifier.barcode: 124106
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dc.description.numberedpages: 246
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dc.language.iso: English
dc.publisher.digitalrepublisher: Universal Digital Library
dc.publisher: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
dc.rights: Copyright Protected
dc.title: The Autobiography Calvin Coolidge
dc.rights.holder: Calvin Colidge
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Subject: Silent Cal's Silent Memoirs
That, at least, is in character, for ‘Silent Cal’ would become a running joke as president. Supposedly a woman seated beside him at dinner said “Someone’s just bet me I won’t get more than two words out of you”, to which he replied “You lost.” If that wasn’t true, then it should have been, and his taciturnity extends into this little volume, perhaps the only presidential memoirs that a man can comfortably lift.
But don’t look for any miracles of distillation here. The first and better half simply describes a frugal upbringing in small-town Vermont and a good education at Amherst College. The second half, covering the White House years, is disappointingly unrevealing, mostly dry little lectures about how to delegate responsibility.
Entirely absent, for example, is anything about his lively and popular First Lady, except a single sentence, sounding like something on a gravestone. Actually it was Harding’s First Lady I was hoping to hear more about - so dominant in her husband’s career, even helping to select his cabinet, that she must have known more about the scandals than she ever let on.
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